In the spring of 2013, more than 1,000 New Yorkers were directly briefed about SIRR and many more have been briefed since. This includes residents from areas impacted by Sandy who participated in a series of 11 public workshops to give direct feedback in a small group setting.

11 public workshops were conducted within the five areas of New York City that had the most lingering physical damage from Sandy. Click on the link to read more about each workshop:

Workshop Facilitator Note Review by NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Matthew Breeden and Katherine Pozycki, students of NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, reviewed the facilitator notes from 10 of the public workshops in order to summarize the feedback and distill it into trends along four categories for each impacted area: community assets, community vulnerabilities, top rebuilding priorities, and other feedback. You can download the presentation here:

If you would like to give us feedback about rebuilding New York City and making it more resilient to future storms and climate change, please do so here.